Harry Hendrick Visiting Associate Professor Department of English University of Southern Denmark Campusvej 55 DK-5230 Odense M Tel: +45 6550 3407 Fax: +45 6593 0490 E-mail: hendrick@hist.sdu.dk

Harry Hendrick (BA, MA, Warwick University; Ph.D, Sheffield University). Prior to coming to Denmark, for many years I taught social and economic history at Oxford Brookes University, followed by several years as a freelance lecturer at London University and on the London Program of the University of Delaware. I have also been a visiting lecturer in the History Dept at Delaware (USA) and Guest Professor in the Dept of Child Studies at Linkoping University (Sweden) in 2002 and 2004. My main research and publishing interest is in the history and sociology of childhood and youth and my main book publications are: Images of Youth. Age, Class and the Making of the Male Youth Problem, 1880-1920 (Clarendon Press, 1990), Child Welfare. England. 1872-1989 (Routledge, 1994), Children, Childhood and English Society, 1880-1990 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Child Welfare. Historical Dimensions, Contemporary Debate (Policy Press, 2003), editor Child Welfare: An Essential Reader (Policy Press, 2005). Book in progress is Children and Grown-Ups in English Society since the Eighteenth Century (London Books). Recent essays: 'Conceptualizing Childcare. early Childhod Education and Care in Postwar Britain', ZSE. Zeitschrift fur Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, 22, 3, 2002: 265-82. 'Children's Emotional Well-being and Mental Health in Early Post-Second World War Britain: the case of hospital visiting', in M. Gijswijt-Hofstra & Hilary Marland (eds), Cultures of Child Health in Britain and the Netherlands in the Twentieth Century (Rodopi, 2003), 213-42. Forthcoming: 'Histories of Youth Crime and Justice' in B. Goldson & J. Muncie (eds) Youth Crime and Justice (Sage, 2005/6).